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Cybersecurity

Meta Ads Push StreamRat Android Trojan That Can Gain Near-Complete Device Control

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and can give operators…

Cybersecurity

BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some…

Cybersecurity

Malicious Apache Modules Hijack Brazilian Government Site Traffic to Push Betting Pages

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions, and using them to…

Cybersecurity

Malicious .git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Other AI Agents Run Attacker Code

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository’s own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer’s…

Technology

GOP Begs Supreme Court To Let It Flood Airwaves With Cheap Midterm Propaganda

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties violate the First Amendment,…

Technology

BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Hackers carried out a supply chain attack that installed malware on networks using an unusual technique: hijacking a chunk of Internet space where cloud management software used by hosting providers,…

Technology

Is Russia’s rival to Starlink failing? Here’s what we know.

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Russia’s attempt to replicate SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network seems to be moving as slowly as the front lines in eastern Ukraine. The Rassvet program, often billed as Russia’s answer to…

Cybersecurity

How to Secure Enterprise AI: From Adoption to Incident Readiness

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

The debate about whether AI delivers business value is over. The challenge now is implementing it at scale and securely across every function while meeting board-level pressure to move fast.…

Cybersecurity

Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerabilities, discovered…

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Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced…

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